Homeless Nights, Homeless Rights

Our firm has been engaged to help create The Western Regional Advocacy Project. The organization was created to solve the systemic crisis of massive homelessness by creating public policies which respect homeless peoples' human rights to housing, health care, treatment, employment, equity, and educational opportunities. The violation of poor and homeless peoples' civil rights is the flip side of the violation of their right to housing, health care, and employment. History has shown that to address massive social injustice and systematic civil rights violations, nothing short of a coordinated, broad based social movement will work. In order to build a powerful movement the national advocacy agenda must be connected to, driven by, and given political weight from grassroots organizing of poor and homeless people. As a regional organization, WRAP has the power of collective mobilization, while they do not become too diffused or disconnected from local communities. At the same time, they are actively working to build power with local allies across the country, and with national homeless advocacy organizations.